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Women's HIL Live: Odisha Warriors pip Soorma Hockey Club - Highlights
With no goals in regulation time, a shootout was needed to separate the two sides.
Soorma Hockey Club were unable to reproduce the performance they displayed in their victory against the Delhi SG Pipers (Photo credit: Hockey India League)
The Odisha Warriors pipped Soorma Hockey Club in the Women's Hockey India League on Tuesday in Ranchi.
With no goals being scored in regulation time, a shootout was employed and the Warrior netted two goals to emerge winners.
At the outset, this was a clash between the first and second-placed teams of the league.
Soorma cam in to this game on the back of sensational form and were currently on top of the WHIL standings with three wins in four matches. Before the game tonight, they had lost just one match.
Odisha Warriors, on the other hand, have had a topy turvey journey, winning two matches, drawing one and playing one.
Catch all the highlights here.
Live Updates
- 21 Jan 2025 1:35 PM GMT
Q4: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
Q4 now underway.
Should it stay 0-0 at the end of Q4, we'll have a shoot out.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:34 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
The hooter blows to signal the end of Q3.
No goals just yet here tonight.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:31 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
Turnover aplenty in the 3rd quarter.
Both sides, Soorma in particular, relying on crosses from the right flank in this quarter.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:28 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
Akshata this time, drills one into the Warriors' circle from the right flank.
The cross fails to find a Soorma stick in the circle and that's been the story of the game so far.
5 minutes left on the clock.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:25 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
A few more circle penetrations this time around.
Salima Tete glides from the right flank and fires a cross towards the goal where a Soorma forward fails to trap the ball.
An opportunity goes abegging.
8 minutes left.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:20 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
The Warriors earn a PC in the very first minute of this 3rd Quarter.
Its a terrific drag flick from the Warriors but Savita, the Soorma keeper, parries it away to safety with an outstretched left leg.
Solid save there from Savita.
13 minutes left.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:18 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
"Both teams trying. I want us to be a bit more aggressive. We've to get in the circle more," says Janneke Schopman, coach of the Warriors.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:18 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
"Both teams trying. I want us to be a bit more aggressive. We've to get in the circle more," says Janneke Schopman, coach of the Warriors.
- 21 Jan 2025 1:17 PM GMT
Q3: Soorma 0 - 0 Warriors
"Its a good old arm wrestle at the moment. Its a good contest. We just need to be more clinical with the execution," says Jude Menezes, coach of the Soorma Hockey Club.
